Mopar Muscle Association UK

So that director got a Charger to smash into a fruit & Veg stall after all then.

couldn't possibly say one way or another


Dave

How much mess/damage did that result in?

some

if you didn't expect to see it you probably wouldn't notice
bust the nose cone and grill
smashed the badge

i have a signature in blood regarding repair

just going through the quote phase with some well known local body shops

i'll do a bit of a write up with some pics when i get a chance
and its all ended with the happy return of the car to stock rather than bent

it was a good day out
and an emotional rollercoaster rolled into 1...

had to keep shtuum

been a bit of idiocy in the press metro radio 1 and the star

"Charlie Simpson found out the hard way what happens when you upset the apple cart. The ex-Busted singer was knocked out by flying fruit when a stunt went wrong during the filing of his new video, Cemetery. The 26 year old was directed to sit next to a fruit stall as a car sped through it. But producers underestimated the force of the flying melons and apples as they hit the star's head. He was later able to carry on with the shoot despite the violent serving of his five a day"

you can make up your own mind on that one

the worst we all got was the aroma of onions if charlie was knocked out he's very good at talking humming bouncing about on the spot and arrnging his hat while unconsicous

I was picking bits of oasis foam and oinion skin out of my face all the way home.... its amazing how much ended up in the vents

Philith pulled enough of the stuff out of the K member at the hot rod drags to do the flowers for the royal wedding

picture the puzzled look....

Dave

Dave999 wrote:some

if you didn't expect to see it you probably wouldn't notice
bust the nose cone and grill
smashed the badge

i have a signature in blood regarding repair

just going through the quote phase with some well known local body shops

i'll do a bit of a write up with some pics when i get a chance
and its all ended with the happy return of the car to stock rather than bent

it was a good day out
and an emotional rollercoaster rolled into 1...

had to keep shtuum

been a bit of idiocy in the press metro radio 1 and the star

"Charlie Simpson found out the hard way what happens when you upset the apple cart. The ex-Busted singer was knocked out by flying fruit when a stunt went wrong during the filing of his new video, Cemetery. The 26 year old was directed to sit next to a fruit stall as a car sped through it. But producers underestimated the force of the flying melons and apples as they hit the star's head. He was later able to carry on with the shoot despite the violent serving of his five a day"

you can make up your own mind on that one

the worst we all got was the aroma of onions if charlie was knocked out he's very good at talking humming bouncing about on the spot and arrnging his hat while unconsicous

I was picking bits of oasis foam and oinion skin out of my face all the way home.... its amazing how much ended up in the vents

Philith pulled enough of the stuff out of the K member at the hot rod drags to do the flowers for the royal wedding

picture the puzzled look....

Dave

hi dave bri n i spotted the damage to your car at the drags........ how come you let them drive it at a fruit stand anyway ??? also can you get a grille etc etc..

The car does look good in the video though mate.

Forgot to ask. Did you do all the driving?

Oh and why did it have to be real fruit and veg? Why not lightweight fakes with just a few real bits?

Dave wrote:The car does look good in the video though mate.

I agree! Some brilliant shots.

well it started off as a small fruit stall

basic idea was to hit it 30 mph

but then the lady with the fruit turned up

and it became obvious that damage would ensue
50 MPH was the speed

stall made of Oasis foam not polystyrene..... and its built from 12 x8 inch blocks of the stuff

and you start to say

that fruit weighs more than me......

but previous to the whole thing i'd spent a week or so

1) making sure i had a list of guys who could do a very good job fixing it checked out.
basicaly researched on here (who painted what car recently and had i seen it in the flesh, if i had did i think it was any good/better then mine with my uneducated eye and yes of course there are many and some are local, few well placed PMs jobs a goodun)
2) making sure we were insured
3) making sure for areas where insurance was invalid that i was covered for brokeness by owner of production company

the guy who drove was James Nash
http://www.jamesnashracing.com/News2011.aspx

real easy going guy
looks about 15 but take a look at his page

even said sorry about the damage Nice chap

wasn't his fault
refused to wear a helmet.....

said it went through like a knife through butter very stable.

Let them do it??? well its a car, it can be fixed.....and basically why not.

disccused with Liz my wife before hand
basic outcome of discussion was

Its your car
it will get broken
the biggest challenge here for you is how you react when it does,
basically nobody likes to see a grown man cry

its different
will be a good day out
and you get a chance to see your car driven for once

And it was a good day out and of course there is a bit o compensation

you know its going to get broken

its a big prop

and an 8 hour wait for the impact nearly kills ya

i couldn't speak for about 1/2 an hour after the impact.
very similar to the effect of doing a bungy jump...i couldn't speak after that either... didn't hit anyone, didn't cry, didn't re enact the Jimmy/post van scene from quadrophenia, didn't say much, everyone left me to collect my thoughts and spank it up and down to make sure the brakes worked and it didn't pull one way or the other

then filled me up with coffee

then you go through the whole
Ive been an idiot
why why why did i do this
then by the time you are going home you are grinning ear to ear, especially as the band in their transit are trying to keep up.
it was a challenge
the grill had the usual stone chips
front panels were mint but hey

panels
Nose cone and air dam sorted, just need shipping, full soda blasted front end on its way.
grill ends probably ok
grill bottom probably ok
grill centre i have 2 in UK and option on 2 others in Oz
grill top is extruded ally and they make them new so i can get one of them if need be
badge is smashed off but i needed a new badge anyway

light supports
have spares if need be
one of the little lights is pushed back, got a set off a mate of yours duncan about 4 years ago, and set from Baz biker so covered there, bascially have 6 lights and 3 supports so will make up a best-of set for use
same with headlamps. i took out my semi sealed halogens (last set in existance from Hella Aus in 2003) and put in flakeing sealed beams from K-mart


pity they didn't put the screen out.....
really fancied a standard one
it should have an Airtemp style grey tint with green sun strip, last replacement from Pilkington a few years ago they ingnored this request and gave standard screen.

we had a polycarb screen to put in but i didn't fancy disturbing the rubber and mastic to do it.


the production compay were professional and accomodating
had body shop and screen people on site

its all good at the mo.

quotes will be off to production company today

can't go mad, but the people i have asked for quotes will make a very nice job of it.

just have to get prod company to choose... which one

we'll have it fixed by christmas

Dave

Nice

Well done Dave, mucho respect


I didnt do as much filming as some on here, for that recent film I'm not allowed to mention (so I didnt get to see or hear about any other subsequent damage), but when I was there, the only car that was damaged was a dealer's car that was being driven by a 'professional' (as in someone who does this stuff for a living, as opposed to us lot who were being paid, but were not 'professionals' )

Mind you, he was the only one going faster than 20mph round the set

Your car was going at a fair old lick round those 'roads' (looks like that place down Surrey-way where they do a lot of filming/testing like this )....... was the film speeded up?

Was at longstone studios
next to the A3

you can hire out the track...fiat x1/9 club were also in on the day
test and tune type stuff

ex tank factory with full tank testing facilities and test track

I was in the back of the truck

we were doing 50- 60 or so about 5 foot behind with the camera man getting beaten to death with pine cones

they may have used effects to smear the background a bit as half of it was a bit rough

pics here

http://www.jamesnashracing.com/GalleryV ... lleryId=23

the car footage was supposed to be real time
all people footage is filmed at double speed with the band singing/ playing along to a speeded up version of the song (really odd to witness as it sounds like the chipmunks)
then they slow it down and the music and the bands faces/arms/hands move at the proper speed and the rest just looks odd.

they tipped a bucket of mushed up fruit off the back of the truck at 50 onto the car....

then it was cleaned for the 4 th time in its life



Dave

Great stuff would have done the same myself


good on ya fella